Nobel Conference XXXVIIOct 2, 2001 at midnight to Oct 3, 2001 at 11:59 p.m.

"Looking Toward the Second Nobel Century: What Is Still to be Discovered?" will provide a primary North American venue for celebrating 100 years of Nobel Prizes. Click here to watch the live Webcast. The Nobel Conference schedule is:

Tuesday, Oct. 2
9:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony -- Lund Arena
Academic Procession
Welcome - Axel D. Steuer, President of the College
Introduction of Panelists - Tim Robinson, Director, Nobel Conference

10 a.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"Science, a Round Peg in a Square World"
Sir Harold W. Kroto
University of Sussex, Brighton, England
1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

11 a.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

11:30 a.m. Lunch Break

1 p.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for This Millennium"
Roald Hoffmann
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

2 p.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

2:30 p.m. Refreshment Break

3 p.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"A Century of Nobel Prizes"
Erling C.J. Norrby
Secretary General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

4 p.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

5:30 p.m. Centennial Banquet - Evelyn Young Dining Room, Jackson Campus Center (by invitation)
Champagne reception followed by formal dinner recreating the first Nobel Prize banquet

8 p.m. Honorary Degree Ceremony and Nobel Symphony - Christ Chapel

Wednesday, Oct. 3
9:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony - Lund Arena

10 a.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"How Proteins Speak with One Another in Cell Signaling"
Edmond H. Fischer
University of Washington, Seattle
1992 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

11 a.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

11:30 a.m. Lunch Break

1 p.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"Mad Cows, Demented People, and the Biology of Prions""
Stanley B. Prusiner
University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

2 p.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

2:30 p.m. Refreshment Break

3 p.m. Lecture - Lund Arena
"Protein Targeting"
Günter Blobel
The Rockefeller University, New York
1999 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

4 p.m. Q & A Session - Lund Arena

6:30 p.m. Nobel Banquet - Evelyn Young Dining Room, Jackson Campus Center
Lecture: "What Remains to Be Discovered"
Sir John R. Maddox
Former Editor, Nature Magazine, London, England